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To: Dayuhan who wrote (81663)	6/14/2000 8:30:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I do not want to die in a car accident, either, but I am not therefore against driving........

To: Dayuhan who wrote (81663)	6/14/2000 8:31:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

I read recently about a man in prison for 22 years who was innocent. He very narrowly escaped being executed. Turns out there were other, better, leads in the case- but there had been a note in one of the files that "A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush". The note was in a file the defense got by mistake- if they had not seen this note the man would still be in prison. But at LEAST he wasn't executed. There is too much injustice in our system for me to support the death penalty any longer. I always thought of the death penalty as the penalty for obvious cases- like the guy who shot my father and murdered several other people and was caught red handed. But alas prosecutors cannot be trusted with the death penalty. They are under pressure, they ask for this penalty in cases that are iffy. Since I do not know if there is an afterlife- I have no real hope that injustices done here can ever be redressed- and to take away a man's life is to possibly take away all the existence he will ever have. To murder the innocent accidentally, when it is simply not necessary to effect justice (nor cost effective) does not seem logical to me. And I don't see death as necessary to punishment.